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Utopia and Dystopia, Conflict Between Two Extremes
An Appraisal of Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock

V. Sunitha, M.A., M.Phil.

Utopia, Dystopia and Maya

Utopia is an imaginary island represented by Sir Thomas More (1516) in a work called 'Utopia'. It is an ideally perfect place of excellence. On the other hand, Dystopia means an imaginary place or state in which everything is bad or extremely unpleasant.

Maya, the chief protagonist of the novel Cry, The Peacock, is an inhabitant of the dreamland Utopia. She is much occupied in illusion, fantasy and imagination that go with her name 'Maya'. Her husband Gautama, the reincarnation of Gautama Buddha, stands for real and actual world. His practical outlook to life is beyond Maya's self love and imagination.

If Maya is a Hedonist and epicurean, then Gautama is a Puritan. Gautama's philosophies and his adherence to Bhagavad Gita sound hellish and dystopic to her. Maya's ready submission to fantasies and reveries propels her in a dystopic land. Her fatuous supposition to the chimera ransacks her life.

The present paper makes transparent the incompatibility and detachment between the two extremes, Maya and Gautama, who were tied by the sacrosanct nuptials.

Story of Mismatched Couple

The novel unveils the story of mismatched couple Maya and Gautama where one implores for love and the other retreats from it. Their disposition, attitude, outlook and perspective to life stand poles apart. While Maya is over-emotional and highly strung, Gautama is calm, placid and phlegmatic. He is a diligent and industrious lawyer dedicated much to his profession than probing into the fanciful world of his wife. She embellishes and adorns the glory and beauty of the sensuous world with great diligence. Her excessive love of life with all its pleasure and rapture makes her delightful and fine. Her aesthetic appeal and ornamental tendency is inhospitable and unwelcoming to an empirical and feasible man Gautama. Her world is confined and restricted from external realities but Gautama is well reasoned, sound and intelligent man with a rational outlook to life.

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